Finding Daisies

by Jessica Jocelyn

I wonder sometimes who I could’ve been had he loved her right had he loved us right. instead, here I am made from the fire within her and the lies inside him.

let me love the darkest parts of you. show me your scars so, I may kiss those twice. bring me to your walls, the ones you hide behind. we’ll chisel cracks in them to let the light in. we’ll dance and plant seeds and grow new memories.

I am made of all kinds of good intentions that just never turned out quite right- I’m not sure what anyone expected. I am just the long dark-haired daughter of an extremely sinful man, built on lies so magnificent that even he believed them. it only made sense that since they flowed through my veins, it would come second nature to me.